For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?
—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.
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I have it. If i say Basement lights off, it takes 15 seconds and 70% of the time says Sorry I couldn’t understand. My kid thinks it is very funny tho.
Bummer. That’s one of my primary uses for Alexa, that I’d like to fix.
- if I ask Alexa, it reacts right away, faster than walking over to the switch, especially when I specify a dimmer setting
- if I ask Alexa on my thermostat, it’s damn slow to respond and sometimes misses, but the trick is leaving enough time after calling her name
I am using a few of self-built assistants using https://github.com/formatBCE/Koala-Satellite/tree/main - which was heavily inspired and uses a lot of very similar hardware to HA Voice. I have to say my speakers turned out pretty great.
Looks great!
Also sitting idly by wanting more people to talk about it! All I want it for is two features:
-converting units of measure hands-free in the kitchen(27 teaspoons to fl oz, as an example) -check the weather for the day on my way out the door.
Tagging in on this too, I’m wondering what speaker people are combining this with for music streaming. I’ve heard on the early reviews that the speaker is fine for assisting, but not great for music
I really want to see if someone comes out with a dock which has a better speaker. Something you can just pop the voice preview hardware on top of would be nice
Same or even if it makes sense (which honestly I think it absolutely does) at least have an option maybe after the preview edition to have one with a better speaker built in for more cost or something. Keep one as is if you only need the voice assistant, but one one be $20-40 more or something if you plan on using it for music too
I’m pretty sure that’s their plan tbh but damn it I don’t wanna wait! Lol